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Slow Burn

By Laura Blackwell
Slow Burn by Laura Blackwell digital book - Fable

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Anne's quiet existence is shattered when stranger touches her just before committing suicide by commuter train. Although Anne is already working toward a new career and a move away from the city she does not love, San Francisco has other plans for her. As she delves into the dark secret that haunted the stranger, she plunges into a nightmare of her own...and discovers the price that The City exacts upon its citizens. This weird tale is a novelette suitable for reading in one sitting.

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About Laura Blackwell

Laura Blackwell is a journalist/editor by day and a speculative fiction writer/editor by night. She likes making stories and kumquat marmalade. She lives in Northern California, which provides plenty of material for fantasy and weird stories (also plenty of kumquats).

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